Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born. One of 12 children, he liked the hard work and ...

Rutherford's work with Niels Bohr in the 1920s, predicting the existence of neutrons, was later confirmed in an experiment by Rutherford's colleagues. "John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton developed a ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ... and won the Nobel Prize in 1948 for work on cosmic rays.) It was with these first experiments ...

JJ Thomson studied electrical discharges in gases. Following the discovery of x-rays and radioactivity his imaginative work inspired many young researchers, including Ernest Rutherford, WL Bragg and ...

The inscription reads: 1871 ERNEST RUTHERFORD OF NELSON 1937 He was born on 30 August ... He continued Sir Joseph John Thomson's work on atomic physics and after much work on radioactivity he moved to ...